A 26-year-old Australian woman who was left in a two-month coma after being hit by a high-speed rollercoaster has woken up.
The victim identified as Shylah Rodden is said to have climbed onto the Rebel Coaster’s tracks during the Melbourne Royal Show to retrieve her smartphone which had fallen under the tracks.
According to a report by the mirror, Rodden was flung 29 feet into the air before she landed on the ground.
She was left unconscious with severe injuries to her pelvis, arms, legs, back and neck, including brain damage.
Due to the severity of her injury, she was put in a medically-induced coma when she was rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Doctors who were attending to the 26-year-old is said to have told her parents her injuries were the worst they’d seen in a long time.
Her devasted father who spoke to the media is unable to fathom how her daughter got hit by the rollercoaster.
He said “the injuries are horrific. Horrific. She’s brain-damaged. It’s pelvic, her arms, legs, back, neck — there’s hardly a thing that’s not broken. I just can’t work out how the hell so much damage has been done.”
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, the hospital revealed she was now in a stable condition.
A family friend close to Rodden’s family said to News.com.au that she was ‘still not out of the woods’.
According to the hospital, Rodden had been showing some signs of improvement, with her condition being downgraded from critical to serious on October 11.
Source: The Independent Ghana